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Akira SUZUKI

Hokkaido University

Date of Birth: 12 September 1930

Education: BS in Chemistry, 1954 and Ph D in Chemistry, 1959 (Hokkaido Univ.). Postdoctoral, 1963-65 (Purdue Univ., U.S.A., Professor Herbert C. Brown).

Career to Date: Associate Professor, 1961-73 (Hokkaido Univ.). Professor, 1973-94 (Hokkaido Univ.). Professor, 1994-95 (Okayama Univ. of Science). Professor, 1995-2002 (Kurashiki Univ. of Science and Arts). Invited Professors; 1988 (Univ. of Wales, UK), 2001 (Purdue Univ., USA), 2002-2003 (National Taiwan Univ. and Academia Sinica, Taiwan).

Awards and Honors: Weissberger-Williams Lectureship Award, 1986 (Eastman Kodak, USA). Testimonial, 1987 (Korean Chemical Society). Chemical Society of Japan Award, 1989 (Chemical Society of Japan). Professor Emeritus, 1994 (Hokkaido Univ.). . DowElanco Lectureship Award, 1995 (Ohio State Univ., USA). Herbert C. Brown Lecturer Award, 2000 (Purdue Univ., USA). Weissberger-Williams Lectureship Award. 2001 (Eastman Kodak Co., USA). Distinguished Lecturer Award, 2001 (Queen’s University, Canada and Pfizer Co., USA). Honorary Member, Argentine Organic Chemistry Society, 2001 (Argentina). Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan Special Award, 2004 (Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan). Japan Academy Award, 2004 (Japan Academy). Honorary Member of Chemical Society of Japan, 2005. Honorary Member of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2005. The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2005 (Japanese Government). Distinguished Emeritus Professor, 2006 (Hokkaido University). Honorary Professor, 2006 (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China). P. Karrer Gold Medal, 2009 (Zürich University and P. Karrer Foundation, Switzerland). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2009 (UK).
Order of Culture, 2010 (Japan). Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2010. Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011 (UK). H. C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, 2011 (American Chemical Society, USA).

Research Field: Synthetic Organic Chemistry

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Antony Bourdillion

Ultra High Resolution Lithography, USA

Antony Bourdillon did his M.A. and D.Phil. at the Cavendish Laboratory, Oxford, before moving to the Clarendon Laboratory, Cambridge and the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. He was also director of microscopy at the University of New South Wales, professor in New York, and at the National University of Singapore, where he proposed, built and directed the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source. He has published a hundred journal articles and several monographs on quasicrystals, high temperature superconductors and X-Ray lithography.

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Akira Fujishima

Tokyo Univ, Japan

Professor Fujishima was born in 1942 in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo in 1971. He taught at Kanagawa University for four years and then moved to the University of Tokyo, where he became a Professor in 1986.
In 2003, he retired from this position and took on the position of Chairman at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology. From 1st of January 2010, he became President of Tokyo University of Science. Now he is Director of Photocatalysis International Research Center, TUS. His main interests are in photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry and diamond electrochemistry.

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Sean J. Hearne

Sandia National Laboratories

Sean Hearne is the co-director at the Department of Energy’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) and the 2018 president of the Materials Research Society. Sean received his bachelors’ degree in 1991 from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he was trained and licensed as a commercial pilot. He then followed his passion, physics, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University in 2000, where his dissertation research emphasized the mechanical properties of materials. Sean worked from 2000 to 2001 at Intel Corporation; where he was a Senior Process Engineer in the Components Research Group in Hillsboro, OR and was responsible for developing new interconnect technologies for use in future generations of microprocessors. Since 2001, he has worked for Sandia National Laboratories where his research has primarily focused on elucidating the sources of intrinsic stress creation and evolution during thin film deposition. This research includes MOCVD growth of GaN and fundamental mechanisms inducing stress during Volmer-Weber thin film growth. The work led him to other research topics including micro-/nano- fabrication and nano-enabled devices for electrical energy storage. In Sean’s current role as CINT co-director, he works closely with partners from Los Alamos National Laboratory to ensure CINT has a vibrant international user program that advances the understanding of the fundamental science behind integrating nano-components into systems that impact the macroscopic world.

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Jong-Heun Lee

Korea Univ., Korea

Jong-Heun Lee has been a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University since 2003. His research interests include semiconductor gas sensors and functional oxide nanostructures. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Department of Inorganic Materials and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1987, 1989, and 1993, respectively. Between 1993 and 1999, as a senior researcher, he developed automotive air-fuel-ratio sensors at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He was a STA fellow at the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (currently NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan) from 1999 to 2000 and a research professor at Seoul National University from 2000 to 2003. He is an editor of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical and a regular member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. In 2014, he has been selected as ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ by Thomson Reuters for ranking in the top 1% most cited papers. He has won several awards including ‘POSCO TJ Award’ (2017). He published 280 peer-reviewed papers and holds 40 domestic and international patents.

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Peter Littlewood

University of Chicago, USA

"Peter B. Littlewood is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Chicago who is a Professor in Physics, the James Franck Institute, and the College. His research interests include superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses and density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability.

Dr. Littlewood came to Chicago and to Argonne in 2011 after being appointed associate laboratory director of the lab’s Physical Sciences and Engineering directorate, and served from 2014 to 2016 as Laboratory DIrector. He spent the previous 14 years at the University of Cambridge, where he last served as the head of the Cavendish Laboratory and the Department of Physics. He began his career with almost 20 years at Bell Laboratories, ultimately serving for five years as head of Theoretical Physics Research.

Dr. Littlewood holds six patents, has published more than 250 articles in scientific journals and has given more than 300 invited talks at international conferences, universities and laboratories. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences). He serves on advisory boards of research and education institutions and other scientific organizations worldwide. He holds a bachelor's degree in natural sciences (physics) and a doctorate in physics, both from the University of Cambridge."

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Robert J. Nemanich

Arizona State University, USA

Robert J. Nemanich is Regents’ Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. He received BS and MS degrees at Northern Illinois University and PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining ASU he was a senior member of the research staff at Xerox PARC and professor at North Carolina State University. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and has served as President of MRS, and President of IUMRS. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society and has served as Chair of the Division of Materials Physics. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Diamond and Related Materials. He has used surface science, surface microscopy and optical techniques to study surface and interface phenomena, and his current research is in energy and electronics applications of diamond, GaN, polar oxides and other wide bandgap materials.

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Sang-Il Seok

UNIST, Korea

Sang Il Seok is currently a Distinguished Professor at the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. Before he joined UNIST in 2015, he served on the principle investigater of Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology and professor at department of energy science, Sungkyunkwan University. In 2017, he was appointed as guest professor of Nankai University in China. He obtained his PhD degree at Department of Inorganic Materials Engineering of Seoul National University, Korea, in 1995. From 1996 to 1997, he experienced a post-doc to investigate defects and transport in Fe-Ti-O Spinel structure in Cornell University, USA, and visiting scholar in University of Surrey, UK, in 2003, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2006 respectively. His major research interests were functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials through solution process for optical amplifier, high dielectrics, corrosion-resistance coatings etc. Now, his research focus is based on inorganic-organic hybrid solar cells, in particular perovskite solar cells. He published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers including Nature, Science etc. with several awards for his Excellency.